Blackboy Hill, Western Australia

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Blackboy Hill, Western Australia

Location now absorbed into Greenmount, Western Australia

[edit] Military Camp

Site of an ANZAC memorial that is attended every Anzac Day, for both the evening vigil and the dawn service. The reason for this was the military camp within this location which had large numbers of troops who left to serve at Gallipoli and other locations in the First World War.

During the First World War roops were transported to the adjacent Helena Vale Railway station and marched across to the camp, so as to not interfere with the working of the Eastern Railway. The camp and its adjacent structures were on the hill that is now utilised by the St Anthony's Primary School and Church, and Greenmount Primary School.

The Anzac memorial is on a segment of ground that is between the two primary schools.

Most of the original site is now covered by housing development, but up until this began in the early 1990's, remnants of the army camp and many associated rubbish pits were visible.

[edit] Railway Station

Also Blackboy Hill was a named railway stopping place between Bellevue and Swan View between the 1940's and 1960's. It did not exist during the first world war as a stopping place for troop movements.